treatment consisted not only of sentence manipulating but also the writing paragraphs and stories. Results indicated that the sentence combining technique
students achieve significant gains over their control group in written language scores and free writing. The other study by Stoddard 1982 in Strong 1986
showed the effect of sentence combining against regular programs. In a six-week study involving 120 students in four district schools. Results show that the
treatment groups’ score was significantly higher on syntactic fluency and overall writing quality than the control group students. A recent study by Saddler and
Graham 2005 which assessed the effect of sentence combining procedure involving peer-assisted practice shown that the experimental students who
receives the teaching treatment by using sentence combining technique has positive improvement in writing. From the results shown above, it can be
concluded that sentence combining technique was one of the alternatives and effective technique to be applied to increase the students’ writing achievement in
Indonesia. Based on the explanation above, it was decided to conduct a research
about the Applying Sentence Combining Technique on Students’ Achievement in Writing Recount Text.
B. The Problem of The Study
In line with the background of the study above, the problem was formulated as follows:
“Is students’ achievement in writing that taught by using Sentence Combining Technique higher than taught by using Complete Sentence Technique?”
C. The Objective of the Study
The objective of the research was to investigate whether the application of Sentence Combining Technique significantly affects the students’ achievement in
writing.
D. The Scope of the Study
In genre-based text, writing consist of thirteen types of text such as narrative text, news item, procedure text, argumentative, expository, spoof and
others. The research basically, was limited to the students writing on the students’ achievement in writing skills particularly on recount text, Sentence Combining
Technique.
E. Significance of the Study
The finding of the study was expected to have both theoretical and practical importance in writing as a process and product especially the framework of
writing.
1. Theoretically
a. English teacher, as the source to students’ achievements in writing Recount Text
b. English learner, to their writing skills, specifically in writing recount text and to enlarge their knowledge about sentence combining
technique.
2. Practically
a. English teachers to apply this teaching technique to improve their
students’ achievement in writing recount text.
b. Other researchers to increase and update their knowledge about how to improve writing skill and as the reference for further study related to
this research.
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CHAPTER V CONCLUSIONS AND SUGESSTIONS
A. Conclusions
On the basis of the data analysis, some conclusions are drasn as the follosing. The result of the t
observed
sas higher than t
table
at the level significance 2.75 2.004 shich implies that the hypothesis of this study sas accepted. The
test administered to the students sas reliable as the calculation researches 0.86. It sas proved that the application of sentence combining technique in teaching
recount sriting sas more effective because the results shosed that students’ score sas higher after the treatment.
B. Suggestions
In line sith the conclusions and the result of the research, some suggestions are stages as the follosing.
1 The English teachers are suggested should be able to choose a teaching technique to achieve a satisfying result and had be better apply Sentence
Combining Technique in teaching sriting to make the students’ sriting become more varied, innovative and sell organized.
2 The students are suggested to be more creative, confidence and enjoyable in exploring their sriting ability by applying sentence combining
technique, because the students can srite the sentence to knos about hos to make a combine kernel sentence. Since it help them to increase their
sriting quality.
3 The readers are suggested to read this research result to siden their horizon about the benefit of doing research shenever they sant to prove
their intended purposed in research area.
